The Tax Project Institute’s Smarter Citizen App® is built and designed JUST for citizens. This wasn’t made for lobbyist, politicians, lawyers, economist, journalists although all are welcome. These tool are made specifically for the American Citizen, to understand how our Government spends your Tax Dollars, what you contribute as a Citizen, and other tools to help you understand the Economics of our Country. You don’t have to be technical, you don’t have to be a tax account or an economist. Our simple to use, interactive, and visually appealing charts make it easy to understand and learn how your Tax Dollars are put to use. Our tools are FREE to use, we don’t ask for a credit card, our service is free to American Citizens. We feel every citizen has the right to understand what you contribute to our country, and where your hard earned money is spent. We provide the facts and data, you come up with your own informed opinions and conclusions.
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Create your own personal Dashboard with various Government and Financial Metrics and Data. Use the Tax Project’s Dashboard Widget app tool to compose your own personal Government Financial Dashboard. Arrange and Select the Widgets and Data you want to see in the place you want to see it. Save the view to your profile and every time you open the app your own personal Government Dashboard awaits! Explore the Widgets and add more when they become available – your Dashboard keeps improving.
You get a receipt when you buy a pizza, when you buy shampoo, or a book – Why not when you pay your Taxes? Now you can create a Personalized Tax Receipt for your Federal Taxes with the Tax Project Tax Receipt calculator tool. See an actual estimate on based on the Taxes you paid and where it was used by our Government. See the actual dollar amount estimate for each top level Federal Expense in a Tax Receipt just for you. Understand your individual contribution like never before.
Interactively Explore Federal Government Spending with the Tax Project’s Government Explorer tool. Visually see and explore the budget by Agency, Budget Function, or Individual Objects. Search by Year, or Period, see how large or small spend is in any area, and understand if the budget is growing or shrinking. Filter the data to locate what you are looking for. Visualize the data in several Chart formats. Explore, learn and get a sense for how Federal dollars are used. See the details as you have never seen before.
The Tax Project’s Real Time National Debt Clock tool. Get all the context you need, see how big the Debt is currently, and compare that to our historical debt for perspective. You can also see if annual Fiscal budgets are adding to of subtracting from the Debt with our Surplus and Deficits view. See how much Debt we have accumulated per Citizen and per Tax Payer. See our Visualize the Debt with real world comparisons for how large the National Debt truly is.
The Tax Project’s Real Time Interest being paid on the National Debt tool. See how much the US pays in Interest for our National Debt. Understand how that compares to other Government expenses, how it Crowds out other Services and what we could pay for instead of paying Interest. Visually Compare the amount of Interest the US Pays on Debt compared to the entire economies of other countries to understand the scope of the Interest payments.
The DOGE Savings app tool uses the DOGE API to provide detailed transaction level visibility of DOGE’s saving efforts. Understand which Contracts, Grants, and Leases are effected, the savings amount and what percentage of the overall value was saved. Search and Visualize the DOGE Savings data by Agency or Vendor. Get the detail and understand at a macro level where the Savings are coming from, and Geographically where the leases are being effected. Drill down into each transaction, including the Federal Procurement Data System (FPDS) record details.
Every year, citizens across the country in each state pay their taxes at the Federal, State, and Local Levels. Some of those taxes are redistributed from the Federal Government back to the States. The Tax Project Fund Flow app tool helps Visualize Funds Flowing from the States to the Federal Government and from the Federal Government to the States. Understand which States are contributing more or less to the Federal Government, and which states are benefitting the most, and the least.
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